This might be a very trivial and known thing for people working in Siebel 8.0 workflows from long time. But I wasted around couple of hours for nothing over this. So, thought of posting it here which might help newbie’s save some time if they happen to stumble over same problem.This post is about Siebel [...]

In the last post I mentioned that we were facing a performance issue while trying to assign a Owner to Service Request and I had mentioned about the analysis and finding that we had done. In this post I will state the reason and resolution of the problem. Before we start I would like to [...]

Time again to discuss a Siebel Performance issue. Problem: We created a workflow and in one of steps we were assigning an Owner to the Service Request. This was a typical Siebel Operation Step (Update Operation) in which we were passing the value for Owner Field so that it could be assigned. This step was [...]

I was working on a performance issue few days back the usual stuff we see in Siebel. A particular view was taking time in opening up. So, I followed the usual steps to debug the problem: 1>>  Opened dedicated client with spool enabled. 2>> Found out the SQL that was causing the issue. 3>>  Opened up [...]

Problem: While trying to import Business Component SIF exported from Siebel 8.1 Tools to Siebel 7.8 Tools and encountered a error message as shown below: “UI_FREEZE is not an attribute of type PROJECT. This input SIF file is in wrong format (SBL-DEV-00386)”

Problem: I was trying to simulate a workflow yesterday which had just one step of “PRM ANI Utility Service” with “CreateEmptyPropSet” method. While simulating the workflow I received a really strange error message box (Screenshot shown below).

I recently installed Siebel 8.1 on my system (in addition to Siebel 7.7 and Siebel 7.8). As I didn’t had my local extracted I copied my friends DBF file in Siebel\Tools\Local directory in order to explore the application. I started Siebel Tools, put in local user id and password and logged in successfully (without any [...]

Problem: While trying to open a dedicated client an error is shown. “Requested Server could not be found” or “Your requested host ‘server name’ could not be resolved by DNS Server”

 Few days ago a user of our application suddenly started getting error while going to a particular screen.  ”An error has occurred setting the query specification. Please execute another query or ask your systems administrator to check your application configuration if the problem persists.(SBL-DAT-00313)”

Siebel is full of strange problem and for many of them there is no logical explanation of problem (may be there is but we just don’t know). In this post I will discuss a strange problem that I faced few days ago. I was able to solve the problem but unfortunately I was not able [...]

Problem: Executing  “Generate New Database” Job resulted in following error. SBL-GDB-00004: Error in Main function Reason:

Let me clarify this in start this post discuss kind of advance concepts so if you are not able to understand the terms Quote Line items, Product Configurator, SiebelMessage, EAI Siebel Adapter, Root Item then this post is not for you. Few days back I had a chance to work on interesting requirement. We were [...]

In this post I am going to discuss the most trivial issue you might have ever heard in Siebel and most of you must be aware of the solution already. I had been facing this issue from a long time but it is so trivial never paid attention on finding the solution. Before going into [...]

Jeevan friend of mine faced a problem while working on Integration Object last week. It was not a very big problem but was an interesting problem and also he was able to identify it as a siebel bug, so I thought of sharing it with all. Problem: When we create an Integration Object that has an Integration [...]

WarrenTVoid  a member of Siebel Unleashed forum shared a very important and useful information about Siebel 7.8.2.10 Patch. If you are planning to move to this patch then you should read before you decided to go for it. Here is what he has to say!! There are a number of issues with the 7.8.2.10 patch. [...]